In the middle of May, the president of Cercle d’acomia, Jaume Guardiola, sent his letter to the Magi. In the speech to close the annual days that the influential business entity organizes in Barcelona, Guardiola addressed Salvador Illa to ask him that the PSC Pacte with “the majority party of the opposition”, in reference to Jnts Per Catalunya. The leader of Cercle, who was previously CEO of Banco Sabadell, represented the President of the Generalitat: “There are measures that are implementing that they do not seem the most appropriate,” he said, and accused him of making decisions influenced by bad companies: “They arise from the need to agree with parties far from the political centrality of the country,” Guardiola said, in reference to the dependence of the PSC of the common ones. Junts maintains a distant relationship with the Cercle and the replica of Carles Puigdemont to the proposal has been clear: “Those who have applauded the Government who speaks of the return of normality to Catalonia (…) Now they want us to calm them down.”
The employers and entities that represent the business and business sector admit political maneuvers to block those initiatives that may harm their benefits. “Our legs do not tremble and we raise our voice, with education and modesty, to defend our interests,” said Josep Sánchez Llibre during his speech at the General Assembly of Treball. Sánchez Llibre criticizes the Government of the Generalitat because, “due to the influence of its investiture, ERC and common partners, to which the CUP has also been added” has raised an increase in the transmissions tax or hardening the tourist rate, in addition to taking measures to regularize the housing market. Foment, the same as Pimec, openly criticizes the reduction of the working day to 37.5 hours. Antoni Cañete, president of Pimec, has acknowledged having “fear of the parliamentary process” of the labor reform.
In this sense, Junts appears as a possible counterweight to condition socialist plans in the Parliament and in the Congress of Deputies and a considerable sector of the business class does not hide his interest in copying Germany, with the alliance between conservatives and social democrats, and that Puigdemont’s party enters a large -format Catalan political agreement with the PSC. Both formations have favorable positions on infrastructure development and coincide in some matters of economic impulse, such as the need to expand the Barcelona airport, the Hard Rock casino in Salou (Tarragona). They also share misgivings on the off the nuclear power plants. Rodalies trains are one of the most thorny issues for the Government of the Generalitat, and the PSC maintains as commissioner to manage the transfer of competencies on the service to Pere Macias, who was mayor of Convergència and counselor of the Jordi Pujol executive.
“Entrepreneurs see the world in one way, the politicians of another,” explains Oriol Bartomeus, political scientist and director of the Institute of Political and Social Sciences (ICPs). “Junts needs to be presented as an alternative to Government From Illa and for the PSC the investiture pact with ERC and common, such as to do experiments, ”says a PSC source.
This week, Junts has announced that he rules out the possibility of entering the government of the City of Tarragona, controlled by the PSC in the minority. Jordi Sendra, mayor of Junts, admits that the break comes after long negotiations. “The agreement was made, but in the end the negativities of entering the government have weighed a lot.” Avoid extending on these “negativities”, but confirms that the agreement was ruled out after having elevated it to the direction of the party: “There are obvious discrepancies nationwide, our project is not that of Illa, it is that of Puigdemont,” he explains. On the convenience that Junts and the PSC recover what was baptized at the time SociovergènciaSendra has an accurate diagnosis: “I have always thought that they are two government parties and that they would have to understand.”
The parties fear the impact it may have to reach agreements with other forces, says political scientist Bartomeus. “If you ask people if you agree with what there are great country agreements, most will tell you yes. Now, then, those same are the first to accuse the members of their party, when they agree with a rival force.” The context is with me or against me, without nuances. “The current competition between parties encourages any agreement to be interpreted as a assignment, as a betrayal of the principles, and as something that can anger their own voters.” In the Catalan case, the rivalry is still more lived in the leather, if possible. “He Proces It excavated a ditch between the matches that supported independence and those that did not. There are some movements to put some catwalk on that ditch, but they are only incipient, ”says Bartomeus.
After the municipal elections of 2023, Junts and the PSC had pending signature agreements to govern together in the deputations of Tarragona and Lleida. The treatment was blocked at the last minute and the deputations ended up in the hands of ERC, with the support of the Socialists. A source of Junts that intervened in those negotiations indicates that the fear of losing support in the general elections caused the Juns address to block the treatment with the PSC. “It was pure electoral fear. And it is curious because it invites you to think that more importance is given to a seat of more or less in the Congress of Deputies, rather than be able to send in two deputations in Catalonia.”
For more updates, visit our homepage: NewsTimesWire
